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“As a player, I just want to play games, so it wasn’t particularly that I needed any motivation, because as a player, all I want to do is be out there playing every week. That’s what I’ll try to do,” he said.

“Every time you step on the pitch, you want to prove that you should be out there and should be playing.

“I was disappointed that I wasn’t in the team at the start of the season, so when I did get my opportunity I knew that I needed to take it because you don’t know when the next one might come along.”

When it comes to taking the opportunities they have on the pitch in games, Notts have proved adept at snapping up the ones that matter – and limiting their opponents to very little.

Rob Milsom in action (Image: Dan Westwell)

Defensive solidity – with four successive shut-outs – is providing the perfect platform.

“The gaffer has been talking a lot about clean-sheets,” said Milsom. We work a lot in training on set-plays, being out of possession as a team and how to stop the opposition from creating opportunities.

“The last four games we’ve had four clean-sheets. That’s due to a lot of hard work on the training ground and then implementing that into the games.

“If you get things right defensively, you know you’re going to have an opportunity at the other end to try to score.

“If you’re keeping things right at the other end of the pitch, we know we can get goals – especially with the strikers that we have in our team, and the players out wide who can create opportunities.”